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Back After this Short Break
by Angela Yuriko Smith

I did all the things you told me to

I paid in gold for digital glamor.

You consumed my joy and left me empty

Until my heart was broke and frozen.

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I paid in gold for digital glamor.

I scrolled. I clicked. I shared.

You consumed my joy and left me empty…

a recycled algorithm, a targeted demographic.

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I scrolled. I clicked. I shared.

buried beneath all the things I’m not…

a recycled algorithm, a targeted demographic.

I sacrificed my joy to your bottom line.

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buried beneath all the things I’m not.

I sacrificed my joy to your bottom line.

I paid in gold for digital glamor.

I did all the things you told me to.

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Fiction © Copyright Angela Yuriko Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

More from Angela Yuriko Smith:

Angela Yuriko Smith is an American poet, author and co-publisher of Space and Time magazine, a publication that has been printing speculative fiction, art and poetry since 1966. Together we build a poem as a community each month. Visit “Exquisite Corpse” at SpaceandTime.net to submit.

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